{"id":27646,"date":"2025-07-05T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=27646"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:41:20","slug":"tian-qiyi-dharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/tian-qiyi-dharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tian Qiyi &#8211; Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tian Qiyi&#8217;s &#8220;Dharma&#8221; is a fascinating combination of traditional Chinese music with present psychedelic folk, creating a sound that feels ancient. It&#8217;s a piece that reaches geographical, physical, and melodic restrictions, creating an experience that&#8217;s simultaneously peaceful and cinematic. The song begins with beautiful traditional Chinese acoustic instruments,\u00a0that take the listener to a peaceful, spiritual mood. However, complicated layers of psych-folk sounds evolve, recalling the experimental spirit of Led Zeppelin&#8217;s &#8220;Page &amp; Plant&#8221; collaborations, Hawkwind&#8217;s cosmic style, and the Beatles&#8217; hazy meditation during their psychedelic era. The combination of the ancient and new is what makes &#8220;Dharma&#8221; attractive. The song is supported by groovy, organic percussion, which provides an earthy, intriguing beat to the melodies. It feels like a mystical trip through sound, some kind of cosmic folk ritual. The composition also has a cinematic heaviness to it, providing a sense of an incredible soundtrack that may be used to accompany a mysterious trip or an ageless storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dharma (John Tian Qi Edit)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWrH130NxxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1677497176\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3711559981\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/wearetian.bandcamp.com\/album\/songs-for-workers\">Songs For Workers by Tian Qiyi, Jah Wobble<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo Credit: photo by Marcus Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wearetian.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/wearetian.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearetian\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearetian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wearetian\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wearetian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tian Qiyi&#8217;s &#8220;Dharma&#8221; is a fascinating combination of traditional Chinese music with present psychedelic folk,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[283,330,4574],"class_list":["post-27646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz-blues-reviews","category-reviews","tag-folk","tag-psychedelia","tag-tian-qiyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27648,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27646\/revisions\/27648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}